The Lachish Letters are a series of letters written in carbon ink containing ancient Israelite inscriptions in Ancient Hebrew on clay ostraca. The letters were discovered at the excavations at Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir).

2023年5月5日 · The Lachish Letters are a collection of texts excavated at biblical Lachish in southern Israel that date to the years immediately preceding the site’s destruction by the …

2022年8月22日 · The Lachish letters, or the Lachish ostraca, are a collection of letters written on potsherds from the ancient city of Lachish. They were originally found in 1935 and probably to be dated to the time just before the fall of the Judean monarchy (early sixth century BCE).

The so-called “Lachish Letters,” nineteen inscribed ostraca discovered in 1935 and 1938 and published rapidly by Torczyner (1938, 1940) are the best known of these texts, for several are relatively long and well preserved and of great interest from a variety of perspectives.

Hebrew alphabet, known until recently mostly from Phoe- nician inscriptions on stone, was really a script intended for use on papyrus, hide, and potsherds, and was employed for both sacred and secular texts. As proved by the varying forms of the characters used, the letters must have been.

2021年10月13日 · The Lachish Letters – These are ostracons or bits of pottery, on which ancient Hebrew writing has been found. They date to 587BC based on the context of the find and the contents of the writing. These are thought to be drafts of communications between Lachish and another outpost.

The Lachish letters are a collection of 22 ostracones discovered during the excavations of James Starkey in 1935 and 1938 and the excavations of Yochanan Aharoni in 1966.

2014年12月22日 · Between 1935 and 1938 James L. Starkey 1. found 18 pottery sherds (ostraca) written in black ink at the excavations at Lachish (Tel ed-Duweir) and thus became known as the Lachish Letters (Hoshaiah Letters).

2017年9月8日 · The so-called "Lachish Letters" are documents consisting of potsherds inscribed in black ink (known as ostraca) which date to the very end of the southern kingdom, when the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar II had invaded Judah and were laying siege to Jerusalem.

2025年1月30日 · The excavations at Lachish show the destruction, but also provide an interesting window into literacy in ancient Israel. The Lachish Letters are a group of correspondences written on sherds of broken pottery (ostraca) found in the excavation. In a time when paper was not available, ostraca provided a flat (albeit curved) surface for writing.